Sankancete

Sankancete is remembered as a Huarpe chief whose name is associated with Caucete, east of the San Juan valley. The surrounding country lies between the Andean foothills and the dry plains of Cuyo. Huarpe communities occupied the valleys and waterways of the region before Spanish settlement, cultivating land where irrigation was possible and using the resources of the neighbouring wetlands. Their lands were drawn into the colonial jurisdiction of Cuyo in the sixteenth century.